Re: Lack of funding is not the real problem
Jed wrote.. >The US has a tremendous federal budget shortage and a trade deficit, but these are a matter of choice. They are the result of policies set by leaders who feel that deficits are not a serious problem. The U.S. has plenty of money in other parts of the economy. The GDP is approximately $13 trillion. Howdy Jed.. Scott Burns wrote an op-ed piece in the Houston Chronicle May 15th. Quoting his figures.. US Fed deficit 2005 318 billionfor a total federal gross debt of over 8 TRILLION This is peanuts compared to what happened in Social security, medicare, medicaid and drugs... ready for the numbers The unfunded mandate increased in ONE YEAR $ 3 TRILLION DOLLARS to a total of $ 32.1 TRILLION Dollars. This is why Donald Rummie stated that .. " deficits no longer matter" They dont!! This is almost 3 times the gross national product of the US. It is the absolute worlds largest pyramid scheme. Enron Execs were convicted of what the politicians practice daily with a straight face. Richard
FW: [BOBPARKS-WHATSNEW] What's New Friday May 26, 2006
Forward by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Akira Kawasaki) > [Original Message] > From: What's New <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 5/26/2006 10:59:57 AM Subject: [BOBPARKS-WHATSNEW] What's New Friday May 26, 2006 WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 26 May 06 Washington, DC 1. CHIEF DOMESTIC ADVISOR: MARVEL COMICS AND THE WAR IN IRAQ. President Bush on Wednesday named Karl Zinsmeister as his chief domestic policy advisor. The position had been vacant since February when Claude Allen resigned the position "to spend more time with his family." During visiting hours? Allen was caught stealing from Target department stores in a fake return scheme. It's hardly Ken Lay stuff, but it's still criminal. Allen's replacement, Karl Zinsmeister, was editor of The American Enterprise, the magazine of the American Enterprise Institute. In 2003, he was embedded as a military reporter with the 82nd Airborne in Iraq. His Iraq experience is chronicled in Combat Zone: True Tales of GI's in Iraq, which Zinsmeister wrote for Marvel Comics - a perfect background for the Bush White House. 2. FDA COMMISSIONER: PLAN B AND THE GOING-AWAY PARTY AT NCI. President Bush in March nominated the director of the National Cancer Institute, Andrew von Eschenbach, a Bush family friend, to head the Food and Drug Administration. His qualifications? Like the last two FDA commissioners picked by Bush, von Eschenbach opposes Plan B, the emergency contraceptive or "morning-after" pill http://bobpark.physics.umd.edu/WN05/wn090205.html , and for that matter, anything else that might reduce the incentive for abstinence, such as human papilloma virus vaccine. His move to FDA was cause for a celebration at NCI. A Washington newsletter, The Cancer Letter, ran a copy of the invitation: "$25 per person. Gift contributions also welcome." The party has been postponed (something about the law), but people at NCI seemed willing to pay just about anything to see the last of von Eschenbach. 3. IMAGINARY WEAPONS: WHY THE PENTAGON KEEPS THIS STUFF SECRET. The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA), one of the countless independent, nonprofit, public policy research institutes in Washington, reported last week that the Pentagon will spend $30 billion on classified programs in FY 2007. Why? In a new book, Imaginary Weapon: A Journey Through the Pentagon's Scientific Underworld, Sharon Weinberger peeks behind the curtain at hafnium bombs, "remote viewing," telepathy and all the rest and concludes secrecy is mostly to avoid rational oversight. 4. GLOBAL WARMING: SPREADING THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT CARBON DIOXIDE. The libertarian Competitive Enterprise Institute, another of the nonprofit public policy organizations based in Washington, has been airing two 60-second television spots in 14 cities across the nation this week. "Nonprofit" does not mean they don't keep cash in the freezer. Most of CEI's $3 million budget comes from oil companies, particularly ExxonMobil. CEI argues that we all have a responsibility to make as much CO2 as possible. THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND. Opinions are the author's and not necessarily shared by the University of Maryland, but they should be. --- Archives of What's New can be found at http://www.bobpark.org What's New is moving to a different listserver and our subscription process has changed. To change your subscription status please visit this link: http://listserv.umd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=bobparks-whatsnew&A=1
(fwd) PhysOrg Newsletter Thursday, May 25
Hi, Interesting juxtaposition of articles. :) >NUKE PLANT MUST CLEAN UP RADIOACTIVE WATER, May 25 >Officials at Illinois' Braidwood nuclear plant have reportedly been ordered to >begin cleaning up groundwater contaminated with radioactive tritium. >Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news67779769.html > >NUCLEAR POWER: SAFE, INEXPENSIVE AND ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY, SAYS BUSH, May >25 >President George W. Bush touted nuclear power as a safe, inexpensive and >environmentally-friendly way to meet America's growing energy needs. >Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news67761153.html Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://users.bigpond.net.au/rvanspaa/ Competition provides the motivation, Cooperation provides the means.
Re: Alt-NRG X Prizes ?
Almost forgot. Need to carry on-board H2 to use that O2 from the Hydrogen Peroxide reaction: 2 HO-OH + 2 H2 -> 4 H2O The Electrolytic Hydrogen Peroxide Processes can provide the H2. - Original Message - From: Frederick Sparber To: vortex-l Sent: 5/26/2006 11:23:29 AM Subject: Re: Alt-NRG X Prizes ? http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/12/tech/main1615295.shtml "250 mpg car?" I'm on it Terry. Closed Otto Cycle Engine (Argon , gamma 1.67 12 to 1 compression ratio) using hydrogen peroxide (HO-OH) fuel. If HO-OH powered engines are good enough for the US Navy. :-) 81% thermal efficiency vs 65% efficiency for a 17 to 1 Diesel open-cycle on air. I keep this engine calculator stored in my documents folder. http://members.aol.com/engware/calc3.htm
OT: The Technology Mosaic
taken from http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/05/25/engineering > The Technology Mosaic > > That Tom Friedman guy was on to something. His ³world is flat² thesis has all > kinds of educators thinking more about the role of science in society. It also > reflects a growing sense in science and one that is not new to engineering > colleges that the next generation of technology trail-blazers need a broad > education. > > Norman Fortenberry, director of the National Academy of Engineering¹s Center > for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education, said that the > move toward interdisciplinary engineering curricula is definitely a trend. ³It > is in response to an increasing consensus within the engineering education > community,² he said, ³but more importantly in the employer community.² > > In his recent ³State of the School² address, Plummer emphasized efforts to > create what he and at least several other deans who have apparently adopted > the term calls ³T-shaped students.² The vertical part of the T represents > the traditional math and science education of an engineer, and the crossbar is > all the other stuff, from marketing to sociology, that students need so they > don¹t end up as deep but narrowly educated toothpick students. > > In an interview, Plummer said that a big part of his push is to inspire more > students to turn to engineering. One of the ways Stanford is doing that is by > getting freshmen and sophomores into the lab, and putting them in intro > seminars of 15 or fewer students that Stanford hopes will bring students into > engineering, rather than weed them out, as is the norm in cavernous g-chem > lecture halls. > > Plummer said that getting underclassmen in the lab where ³they can get excited > about pushing the state of the art,² has changed the traditional undergraduate > experience from one where incoming students are faced with surviving two years > of calculus, chemistry and physics before they learn what engineering is all > about. > > Plummer also noted Stanford¹s Institute of Design a.k.a. ³d.school,² where > engineers can partner with students from across the university to take on big > picture problems. Rather than the typical senior project where four electrical > engineers collaborate, a team in the d.school might be made up of an > electrical engineer, a mechanical engineer, a sociology student and a business > student. > > ³They¹d take a problem like thinking about designing a product useful for > making lighting for people in the developing world,² Plummer said. ³Together > they¹d think about what the product ought to do, with cultural input.² >
RE: Giggle
Wow, and here I've spent my career trying to make products that actually do things. No wonder I haven't made big bucks yet. http://www.randi.org/jr/060305be.html#11 You too can market to the pathological gullible too... http://www.logopoeia.com/wisdom/ Reload the page as many time as you like for hours of fun. Sadly, I think I recognize a few past threads on Vortex in there 8^) -john -Original Message-From: DonW [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 10:43 AMTo: vortex-l@eskimo.comSubject: Re: Giggle http://www.lifetechnology.org/teslashield.htm http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=THE+TESLA+SHIELD+radionics+psionics+rife+orgone+magick&btnG=Google+Search - Original Message - From: leaking pen To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 8:33 AM Subject: Giggle Anyone seen this sucker? http://cgi.ebay.com/THE-TESLA-SHIELD-radionics-psionics-rife-orgone-magick_W0QQitemZ9522360679QQcategoryZ1523QQcmdZViewItem among other things, it incorporates the measurement of the cubit... isnt a cubit from your shoulder to your pointing index finger? No virus found in this incoming message.Checked by AVG Free Edition.Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.7.1/348 - Release Date: 5/25/2006
Re: Alt-NRG X Prizes ?
Frederick Sparber wrote: While Jed is expounding on how it can't be done. (Without his Cold Fusion Fantasy). I said nothing about the 250 mpg automobile. Anyone can see how that can be built. Any automobile maker could have produced a 250 mpg plug-in car 30 years ago. Strictly from a technical perspective, it resembles the development of the Internet: it is a straightforward, predictable, incremental improvement to existing technology. Advanced automobiles have not been developed because of opposition from automobile executives, fossil fuel companies and government leaders, and because the public has never demanded them. Contrary to some modern mythology, the Internet was not a major breakthrough. The people who invented it were brilliant, but not geniuses. They eschewed originality. Like the IBM engineers who first assembled the PC, they selected off-the-shelf equipment that could be reprogrammed cheaply. (Of course that was brilliant, and just the right thing to do.) Any Telcom engineer in the 1970s could understand what they were up to, even though very few could have done such a good job. Actually, one of the most outstanding and inspired aspects of the Internet was in the political leadership. A small number of legislators and government officials, led by Al Gore, saw to it that the project was funded and carried out. Gore was widely ridiculed for saying that he "invented the Internet." There were two problems with this ridicule: 1. He never said "invent." he said: ""During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." 2. That statement is completely correct in every respect. He played a leading role in the development, just as highway commissioner plays a leading role in designing and pushing through funds for a new bridge. If any politician ever pushes through funding for cold fusion, he will have every right to say "I took the initiative in creating cold fusion." In a sense, his role will be as vital as the researchers' roles, although of course they will do more work and they will be irreplaceable, whereas any politician can step into this role. You need at least one politician (or corporate CEO, or philanthropist) plus ~100 researchers to develop cold fusion. Any politician with power and guts will do, but it matters a great deal which group of 100 researchers you select. In a sense, the politician would an "accidental hero" like a bystander who notices a fire and calls 911. Anyone could call 911, and most people would, but the person who actually notices and makes the call gets the credit. The politician's role also resembles my role as librarian at LENR-CANR.org, Any fool could do what I do, but I happen to be the only fool available. (The actual work is not a bit difficult; any intelligent high school kid could do it. My kids helped when they were in high school.) Insofar as LENR-CANR performs a vital service, I get the credit for it. If it ever helps to trigger widespread interest in the field, and funding, I get the credit for that. For jobs like this, as Woody Allen put it, "80 percent of success is just showing up." - Jed
Where Protons Go
As Jones pointed out, sometimes protons simply aren't there. Maybe they go here: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-05/du-sph052506.php One braneworld theorist mentioned here is Lisa Randall. Ah, Lisa . . . http://physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/randall.html Terry ___ Try the New Netscape Mail Today! Virtually Spam-Free | More Storage | Import Your Contact List http://mail.netscape.com
Re: Alt-NRG X Prizes ?
While Jed is expounding on how it can't be done. (Without his Cold Fusion Fantasy). 6,255,009 Combined cycle power generation using controlled hydrogen peroxide decomposition 5,112,702 Electrochemical synthesis of H.sub.2 O.sub.2 - Original Message - From: Frederick Sparber To: vortex-l Sent: 5/26/2006 11:23:29 AM Subject: Re: Alt-NRG X Prizes ? http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/12/tech/main1615295.shtml "250 mpg car?" I'm on it Terry. Closed Otto Cycle Engine (Argon , gamma 1.67 12 to 1 compression ratio) using hydrogen peroxide (HO-OH) fuel. If HO-OH powered engines are good enough for the US Navy. :-) 81% thermal efficiency vs 65% efficiency for a 17 to 1 Diesel open-cycle on air. I keep this engine calculator stored in my documents folder. http://members.aol.com/engware/calc3.htm
Lack of funding is not the real problem
We all know that there is no funding for cold fusion research. Not millions, not even a few hundred thousand dollars, not $10,000. In the future, people may wonder why. It is not because we lack money or skilled researchers. The US has a tremendous federal budget shortage and a trade deficit, but these are a matter of choice. They are the result of policies set by leaders who feel that deficits are not a serious problem. The U.S. has plenty of money in other parts of the economy. The GDP is approximately $13 trillion. (http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrelarchive/2006/gdp106p.pdf) Many corporate CEOs nowadays earn millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars per year. We could easily spare a few million for cold fusion research. Hostility and fear are preventing research, not any fundamental lack of resources. There is such enormous opposition to cold fusion that it would be career suicide for any mainstream researcher to study it, or even talk about it. Until we break through this wall of opposition, there is no point to discussing $10 million X-prizes for cold fusion. (The situation is quite different for conventional breakthroughs for things like plug-in hybrids. An X-prize might work for that, although I would prefer research grants, as I said.) - Jed
Re: Alt-NRG X Prizes ?
I cannot decide whether X-prize idea is interesting or silly. On one hand, I would love to see the CalCars initiative be awarded $10 million. On the other hand, any automobile company could easily do what they are doing, and if automobile companies will not take part in this R&D effort nothing will come of it. $10 million is nothing to an auto company; the initial $10 million down-payment is not what is stopping the development of plug-in hybrids. Any company other than Toyota or Honda would have to pay hundreds of millions if not billions to begin manufacturing real hybrid cars (plug-in or gasoline only). I think direct grants of $10 million to many researchers working on plug-in hybrids and cold fusion would be better than a single prize. If we insist on a prize that you get only after you succeed, cold fusion will probably never emerge from the laboratory. It seems unlikely to me that a single researcher will develop cold fusion into a practical source of energy at this stage. What we need are many different researchers each pushing the development along in different ways. Progress, not perfection. Incidentally, people are not buying fake hybrids. People are smarter than automobile execs think they are. See: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/05/25/BUGK8J1JK11.DTL Quotes: Honda sold 2,023 Accord Hybrids in April 2005 and only 614 in April 2006, according to Rosten. The Toyota Highlander Hybrid sport utility vehicle met a similar fate. It gets 22 mpg on average, compared to 19 mpg for the standard Toyota Highlander, according to Consumer Reports. Yet the sticker price on the hybrid version is $39,895 compared with $32,465 for the non-hybrid Highlander. . . . - Jed
Re: Alt-NRG X Prizes ?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/12/tech/main1615295.shtml "250 mpg car?" I'm on it Terry. Closed Otto Cycle Engine (Argon , gamma 1.67 12 to 1 compression ratio) using hydrogen peroxide (HO-OH) fuel. If HO-OH powered engines are good enough for the US Navy. :-) 81% thermal efficiency vs 65% efficiency for a 17 to 1 Diesel open-cycle on air. I keep this engine calculator stored in my documents folder. http://members.aol.com/engware/calc3.htm
Re: Alt-NRG X Prizes ?
-Original Message- From: Jones Beene There has been talk recently (wishful thinking?) of a governmental initiative, or preferably a private foundation (or joint public/private) initiative to jump-start the development of several forward-thinking alternative energy technologies. <><><><><><> http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/12/tech/main1615295.shtml ___ Try the New Netscape Mail Today! Virtually Spam-Free | More Storage | Import Your Contact List http://mail.netscape.com
Re: Giggle
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Re: Canadian ZPE Patent
-Original Message- From: RC Macaulay Read Tom Friedman's take on the matter. <><><><><><> That's not a free service and I'll be damned if I send any money to the NYT. Terry ___ Try the New Netscape Mail Today! Virtually Spam-Free | More Storage | Import Your Contact List http://mail.netscape.com
Giggle
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Re: Canadian ZPE Patent
Howdy Hohlhoss, While the US scientific community pursues the US Gov't research grants tied to the US University good old boy fraternity system, the rest of the world translates the cumulative research knowledge base into action. Conclusion: Defense research grants have been totally corrupted by this fraternity in concert with the Washington politics. The US Patent office has become obsolete and an entirely new vehicle is required to address the new world of science and discovery. Read Tom Friedman's take on the matter. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/tsc.html?URI=http://select.nytimes.com/2006/05/24/opinion/24friedman.html&OQ=_rQ3D1Q26nQ3DTopQ252fOpinionQ252fEditorialsQ2520andQ2520OpQ252dEdQ252fOpQ252dEdQ252fColumnistsQ252fThomasQ2520LQ2520Friedman&OP=66507390Q2FUjt3UQ5DQ7B(K Richard
Canadian ZPE Patent
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